2020 US Election Thread

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Originally Posted by TheBig3

I don't keep up with things like this, but iirc in terms of militaristic hardware, no other nation has the naval or air power of the US. Meaning a vacuum would replace the US.

Nobody has close to the military capability of the US.

That includes everything from hardware to bases worldwide.

But a key part of that is the US Naval empire, inherited by the Brits after world war 2, through which we control the vast majority of international trade routes.

The other major part being the r&d for new weapons systems by which we help subsidize all the other world militaries by having the top technology and then exporting it overseas.

The vacuum question is real and has already been observed. See: Russia invading crimea. They wouldn't have dared that during the cold war. Once our attention was diverted to the middle east and they were fearful of losing crimea to a regime not sympathetic to the Kremlin, they considered it necessary to invade.